If it weren't for a raket, Toto and I wouldn't be able to visit La Mesa Eco Park this soon. It's not exactly in our list of places-to-visit-this-holiday-season but we just couldn’t let the opportunity pass.

As expected on a Sunday, there were already A LOT of people in La Mesa when we arrived at 11:30am. There were families picnicking, bird watchers holding onto their binoculars every other minute, photographers taking pre-nuptial and pre-debut shots of their clients, kids rolling on the garden, college students holding their team-building activities and couples taking a nap. It’s like a bigger, greener, relatively cleaner but noisier version of Quezon City Memorial Circle.